Setting Description [Paperback]

Why does an author set their story where and when they do? How do you describe places and make them real for your reader? Why might you build contrast between multiple settings in your story? In this useful little book, educator Amy Jones describes the various options available to writers for setting their stories in space and time, and outlines the tried and tested literary tricks which authors use to paint these places so vividly in the imagination of their readers.Amy Jones heads a leading English department in a Somerset college, where she lectures in linguistics, literature, and creative writing as well as podcast writing, poetry, and narrative theory. She is also the author ofLiterary Devices,Plot,Narrative, andCharacterin this series and holds a master of studies degree from the University of Oxford.